Comic-Con

Hey, no fair. My bosses spend lots of money to send me to the TV critics tour, where NBC had almost no footage for us to preview. Then, just a couple days later at Comic-Con the fans get to see the entire first episode of the new season of “Heroes”! I see how we rate.

Of course, “Heroes” creator (and Pittsburg native) Tim Kring is hoping those fans become his disciples and spread the word. “Go back and talk about it and say it’s better than ever,” he told his unpaid flacks.

More from Comic-Con, where “Lost” executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse made their annual visit and brought along star Matthew Fox.

As usual, Lindelof and Cuse didn’t give away the store, but they did drop a few juicy tidbits. They said we will finally get the Danielle Rosseau backstory next season, even though Rosseau was killed. And we will see Kate and Sawyer reunited. For more details, check out the report from Buddy TV. Also, the LA Times has a transcript of some of the questions asked by rabid fans.

The Comic-Con extravaganza kicked off in San Diego with a preview night on Wednesday, during which Fox gave fans their first look at “Fringe,” the sci-fi thriller from J.J. Abrams.

If the report from Entertainment Weekly’s Vanessa Juarez is any indication, J.J. and his pals might be in for a little reality check. Juarez reports that, “after the opening sequence, in which a man on an international flight infects all the passengers with some sort of grisly, flesh-eating plague that leaves behind only their skeletal remains when the plane lands on autopilot at Boston’s Logan Airport, the audience was mostly subdued …” Continue Reading →

I have to admit that I haven’t read Watchmen. It’s been recommended to me numerous times. I’m sort of a fan of Alan Moore, the graphic novel’s writer. But every time I sit down to read it, something distracts me or I have an emergency to take care of.

It’s sort of like my problem watching North by Northwest. I’ve rented it three or four times but could never finish it.

Well, now that a video game prequel is being announced, I may have to start looking into it. According to the Associated Press, the game will be episodic and take place before the graphic novel/movie that’s set to come out iin March. After that, another game will be released for the DVD version of the film.

Sounds good to me.

With all the hype gathering around this film and with the Comic-Con tomorrow, I figure I’ll have to check out the graphic novel and read it just so I can be on the up-and-up next year.

Oh, I was sooo tempted. The TV critic press tour concluded on Tuesday and I felt the tug of Comic-Con, just a short trip down I-5 in San Diego. After all, Comic-Con is going to have a major television presence this year as the event is becoming increasingly important to the networks in their efforts to reach out to young little TV freaks.

Alas, I needed to get home and re-introduce myself to the family. I need to sleep upon my own pillow again. So Comic-Con will have to go on without me. Still, we’ll keep tabs on what’s going down in San Diego and we’ll continue, over the next few days, to report tidbits from the press tour as I empty out my notebook.

According to TVWeek’s Vlada Gelman, Comic-Con will feature 120 TV-related panels, discussions and screenings for current shows and new series. Among the series making their return to Comic-Con after splashy convention premieres are NBCâ€™s â€œHeroesâ€ and â€œChuck,â€ ABCâ€™s â€œPushing Daisiesâ€ and â€œLostâ€ and Foxâ€™s â€œTerminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.â€ Continue Reading →